Perhaps they had been through the moose first?
Carl Clifford
On 25/01/2005, at 6:45 PM, Wim Vader wrote:
At 01:04 25.01.2005, you wrote:
There is quite a good commentary on choosing binoculars in "The
Complete
Birder" by Jack Connor. He quotes a comment by a binocular repairman
(from
somewhere in the US) as follows: "Ninety five percent of the
binoculars I
get in here look like they've been dragged through moose manure. How
can
people expect brightness and clarity when they never bother to clean
the
damn lenses?"
Martin
----
Strange comment, this! Not that most birders' fieldglasses are
not filthy. But moose-manure is not! it consist of perfectly shaped
oval dry 'balls', so regular in form, that some creative people even
have thought about exporting tham as souvenirs! Dragging your
binoculars through a pile of these would not make them any filthier.
Wim Vader, Tromsø Museum
9037 Tromsø, Norway
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